Re: How to switch between virtual terminals on PowerBook?
On Fre, 2002-03-22 at 07:27, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On 20 Mar, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:49:18AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 15:51:16 -0500, Brian Victor wrote:
> >> > I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this before, but have you
> >> > tried the aforementioned keystrokes with [left] option instead of the
> >> > apple key? For my pismo, the apple key seems worthless, and I have to
> >> > use the option key for meta.
> >>
> >> Perhaps this worked in the past. But to emulate the 2nd and 3rd mouse
> >> buttons, I had to use the two keys at the right of the space bar. The
> >> problem is that one of these two keys (the right option key) generates
> >> the same code as the left option key (is there a way to fix that?).
> >
> > I think it's hard-wired to be the same.
>
> That depends on the particular Apple keyboard. There are some (ADB) that
> were reprogrammable via ADB handler ID to give different keycodes for
> left and right keys.
>
> But it seems most (all?) recent keyboards give the same keycode for left
> and right. There still is code in the ADB driver to switch the keyboard
> to that 'distinctive' mode, but eg. on my TiBook it has no effect.
One thing to remember is that you can emulate the right alt and command
keys with fn, but that may not be much help for this problem...
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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